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Elliot Ackerman on Storytelling and the Cyclical Nature of History

The Daily Stoic

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The Thucydides Trap - Who Finishes the War?

The U.S. should always be the one who kind of comes in in the last act and finishes it, he says. "Afghanistan was like exhibit A of how bad we've gotten at finishing wars" The real beneficiary of the Second World War is the United States, author argues.

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